Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

Now a week on, the colorful light show at 290 Mulberry Street is still active.  Here is another (video) perspective.  E.T. phone home?

After hanging above the corner of Lafayette and East Houston for years, Sony has finally surrendered the valuable NoHo perch to the fashion industry. Gone is the epileptic PSP.  Now the billboard sports an anorexic H&M advertisement.  End of an era, folks. Condo owners at SHoP’s 290 Mulberry are probably quite happy. [February 2009]

Well, that didn’t take too long. A quick month after longtime neighborhood denizen Shop shuttered at 94 Orchard Street, there is already a new boutique in place. All the cement pouring and papered windows finally compute. Aptly dubbed Bag, the store boasts an assortment of colorful handbags and other random accessories (surprise, surprise). One question, [...]

As of Friday afternoon, nearly two weeks after boutique Shop shuttered, 94 Orchard Street is again under the knife. Workers installed a new glass door facade, and are now busy gut renovating the whole interior. By last night, the crew was re-leveling the floor with a fresh coat of concrete. Alas, no one on scene [...]

After nigh on a year at 94 Orchard Street, the aptly named women’s boutique, Shop, is finished. Despite the deep spring clearance sales all weekend, the store abruptly shuttered after business hours on Sunday night. There were no outward signs or warnings of its impending doom. Needless to say, it was a somber scene, with [...]

The SHoP condos [link] at 290 Mulberry are getting glassed. Thanks to the endless construction on Houston, those windows will definitely need plenty of cleaning. See Also:Construction Watch: 290 Mulberry Doing Full-On Wave [Curbed]